An Improved Intersection Method for Positioning and Its Application to Dalk Glacier, East Antarctica
Publication: Journal of Surveying Engineering
Volume 149, Issue 1
Abstract
Stake measurement is a significant ground-observation method used to monitor glacier dynamics in the cryosphere and validate the reliability of remotely sensed investigations. However, some stake observation records obtained by total stations have not been efficiently utilized via the classic forward intersection method. The forward intersection method requires a pair of cognominal observation records and cannot function if stakes are only observed from one control point at a stake measurement, which commonly occurs in measurements. Therefore, we propose an improved intersection method that combines stake trajectories and sightlines, the trajectory-sightline intersection method, which requires only a single observation record. In the processing of stake identification, location and elevation from the trajectory-sightline intersection method are constrained by the velocity and surface altitude of the glacier. Then, the trajectory-sightline intersection method is applied to the stake measurement of Dalk Glacier in East Antarctica. The results show that the trajectory-sightline intersection method extracted an additional 44 intersections, thus increasing the data utilization ratio by 20.35%. Moreover, leave-p-out cross-validation indicated that the trajectory-sightline intersection method, with an average offset of in the horizontal position and at the elevation, has similar accuracy to the differential global positioning system (DGPS) applied to Livingston Island. The ice flow velocities of Dalk Glacier calculated from trajectory-sightline intersections agree with those from forward intersections (the mean velocity difference is ). Therefore, the trajectory-sightline intersection method is an effective method for improving data utilization and obtaining stake locations and glacier velocities.
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Some data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. The Landsat image data can be downloaded via the website https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Nos. 41941010 and 41676179]. The authors would like to thank the CHINARE researchers for their hard work in Antarctica. The authors are also grateful to American Journal Experts (AJE) for its English language editing service.
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